Thursday, September 9, 2010

My favoured pustulent ones got down and dirty, fighting tooth and nail in the muck and grime against the implacable Nids. Expecting to be mauled and wiped out by the 2nd or 3rd turn, I was pleasantly surprised to see my boys still mixing it up with the Nids all the way through to a seventh! Yeah, it was going to be that kind of a slugfest.

It was annihilation with a spearhead deployment and the tension began right from our first dice rolls for initiative. We tied both rolling a six and then my adversary got it on the second roll. He set up first and then I placed my army. I only had to put 3 tanks on the table so it was pretty easy for me. So was the strategy: keep my distance. I was rolled back back right against the edge of the table. He had trouble placing all his gribblies because there were so many. His strategy was simple too. Push as far forward as possible.Le jeu s’est joué comme annihilation avec déploiement 'Spearhead'. Dès le premier jeté des dés, la partie était chargée de tension. On a tous les deux roulé un six pour l’initiative donc on a roulé de nouveau et mon adversaire a pris l'initiative avec un autre 6. Il a commencé à placer ses bibittes et après c'était mon tour avec mes 3 chars d'assauts. Ça a été beaucoup plus long pour lui. Nos stratégies ont été faciles: je me suis éloigné de lui, et lui m'a approché de la façon la plus directe possible.

Nothing much happened in the first turn. He moved everything forward, and I took some potshots at his Tervigon and Venomthropes with my Land Raider's weaponry. I think I might have scored a wound on the Tervigon and the venomthropes went to ground. No kill points yet.Il n'y a pas des événements excitant durant le premier tour. Il a avancé tout et moi, j'ai tiré quelque fois sans grands effets. Aucune point de meurtre.

Turn 2

Again not much happened except I put a few more wounds on the Tervigon but there was a moment when something crucial transpired. The zoanthropes took aim at my land raider on the right but failed to pop it. Had they succeeded I could have lost 1/2 my punch right there. As a result I was able to be much more aggressive in turn 3.Encore, il n'y a pas grand chose qui se passe. J'ai ajouté un peu plus de blessures sur le Tervigon mais j'ai été peur à un moment parce que ces Zoanthropes ont tiraient sur mon Land Raider. Si il a réussi, je perdrais un demi de ma force. Par conséquent, il m'a permis d'être beaucoup plus aggressif durant la troisième tour.

Turn Tour 3

Shooting Fusilade

This is where it got down and dirty. The tyranid mass came ever closer and the hive guard managed to score a glancing hit on Typhus' land raider but it only resulted in a 1, no shooting. That was fine by me since now all the Nids were well in range for a rush. Yeah, that's right. Call me insane but I wanted to dive into the fray and rip it up hand to hand with the bugs. I figured if I hit first and hard enough I'd cripple them badly enough for my lads to grab the advantage.C'est içi que l'action a demarré en force. L'essaim a avancé encore et les gardes tyranides a réussi à touché mon Land raider avec un 'glance' d'un. Ça ça me convienne parce que j'ai été assez proche pour faire un rush. J'ai décidé de me saute dans le feu avec les bébittes. J'ai pensé, si je frappe en premier et assez fort c'est possible que je prenne l'avantage.

First order of business, Typhus had to get in there and squash the Trygon. My first land raider rolled right through the gargoyles scattering them in a tank shock and disgorged its contents before the big beastie. Typhus was confident he could go it alone so he told the plague marines to amuse themselves with the gaunts as he decided to vomit his wind of chaos on the Trygon and some winged warriors. At this point my adversary and I realised we had no flamer template. Ever industrious, he found the dimensions on the Net and made one from cardboard. I must remember to bring a few templates just in case, at least the flamers which I use all the time.Mon premier commande est que Typhus ecrase le Trygon. Son land raider a avancé dans les gargouilles avec un 'Tank Shock' et il a dégorgé l'escouade de Typhus jusqu'en face de le Trygon. Typhus a voulu affronté la grosse bébitte tout seul donc il a laissé faire les autres marines de la peste. Ils ont attaqué les gaunts. Mais c'est la que mon adversaire et moi sont rendu compte qu'on manque un gabarit lances flammes. Bien industrieux, il l'a construit de carton avec les dimensions pris de l'Internet.

In spectacular fashion, Typhus blew it on an epic scale. I rolled a 1 for his daemon weapon so the weapon rebelled, cancelling all his attacks and rendering Typhus inert for the turn. This was the screwup that cost me the victory since the Trygon wreaked havoc for the rest of the game as a result.Spectaculairement, Typhus a foutu son chance de planté un Trygon. J'ai roulé un 1 pour son arme Daemon donc il a mangé un wound et il n'a pas attaqué pour le tour. Bravo! Cette malchance m'a couté le partie je pense parce que le Trygon a fait beaucoups de dégâts après ça incluant la démolition de mes deux Land Raiders.

The score was 1 kp for the Nids, 2 kp for the death guard. I was pleased to be leading but I expected the Nids would tear victory from my grasp in the next two turns.Les Nids ont marqué 1 point et les marines de peste, 2. J'ai été content d'être en tête des points mais pourtant, j'étais sur qu'ils vont voler la victoire.

The Trygon predictably diced up Typhus and the warriors tore into the plague marines some more. It didn't go as badly as expected though. I lost a few (each one a good friend), but with a well placed fist the warriors were all killed even with the venomthrope reducing my initiative to 1.Finalement, le Trygon a bouffé Typhus et j'ai perdu d'autres marines de la peste aux les armes des guerriers. Même si j'ai perdu des bonhommes (chacun un bon ami), j'ai fini les guerriers avec mon poing énergétique de mon champion.

With two surviving land raiders I opened fire on the Tervigon and wasted it. This had a domino effect of wiping out the squads of termagaunts it spawned that were currently swarming my lord. Nice.Avec les armes des deux Land Raider vivant j'ai fait éclater le Tervigon. Presque tout les termagaunts qu'elle a engendré étaient mort par conséquence. Ça a été beau.

The score was now 5 kp for the Nids, 4 kp for the death guard. Still close but I had lost the lead and was steadily losing ground. In a war of attrition, the Nids will always win or so I thought.Maintenant les Nids ont marqué 5 points et les marines de peste, 4. Encore sérré mais j'ai perdu mon avantage.

The Trygon now free proceeded to put a new sunroof in my land raider, causing it to explode in the process.Maintenant libre, le Trygon a decidé de l'installé un toit ouvrant dans mon Land Raider et il l'a fait éclater par conséquence.

The tervigon felt bad about the results of his previous attempt at autobody repair, so he thought he'd best try again. Once more my land raider was reduced to smoking charred shorn metal.Le Tervigon a éclaté facilement ma deuxième Land Raider. Ouf!

However I still had 3 survivors from the gargoyle assault, my melta squad. They were way over on the other edge of the table where the Trygon could not aggress them. My adversary did try to kill them with his hive guard weapons but they made all their saves despite taking five hits. Not bad.Mais j'ai eu 3 marines de la peste qui ont étaient encore vivant sur l'autre côté de la table. Mon adversaire a éssayé de les tue avec les fusils des garde de Tyranide mais il n'a pas réussi.